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| I
worked at Volvo Construction Equipment in Skyland NC as
an undergraduate Co-op for a total of 1 1/2 years from
May 1995 to May 1997. I worked in Manufacturing
Engineering. My responsibilities included designing
production tooling and fixturing, designing a part
handling and packaging system for one of our vendors,
writing CNC code, and getting whatever anyone happened to
need at the moment. After working in manufacturing
engineering all day, I would work half of 2nd shift as an
apprentice welder on the L330 wheel loader fabrication line. |
| This is the
Giddings and Lewis Ram 630 high speed production
horizontal milling machine. I wrote programs to
run production parts on this machine, and I designed
several part clamping fixtures for it. One of my designs
is shown bolted to the stump on the right hand side. This
machine is really fast. It can rapid feed at 1500 ipm. |
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| This is the L330 Wheel
Loader. Most of the projects that I worked on were in
support of the L330 front and rear frame and boom arm
fabrication line. |
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| These are bend templates
that I designed and had laser cut. The press brake
operators use them to make sure they have bent parts to
the correct contour. |
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| This is a machining
fixture that I designed for machining the bores on the
steer anchors for the L150 front frame. |
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| These are some of the
bucket pushrods that I welded for the L330 boom arm
assembly. The process used for these is spray transfer
GMAW with 90-10 Argon / CO2 shielding gas, 0.060 dia
E70S-4 wire, and 350A at 40 OCV. The pushrods are 3"
thick and weigh ~220lbs a piece. |
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While working at Volvo I
came up with a part packaging and shipping system that
allowed the L330 front and rear frame parts to be
delivered in subassembly sets directly to the work areas.
Previously they were stacked outside, and the welders had
to go dig through piles to find what they needed. Now the
parts come off the truck and go directly to the welding
station. I had to document exactly how the vendor was to package and load the parts on the truck.
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| Here is a truck packed
the way I wanted it. I visited the vendor, Brannon Steel, in Brampton Ontario, to check out their facility and
show them how we needed to have the parts packaged and
loaded. |
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